PAUSE instead of turning it off?

[phreax]

When my h140 is in DB Scan mode, I dont turn it off because of the long boot-up time. If I want to rest for a while from listening, I pause it (play a track then pause) then resume when im ready again. sometimes it takes me an hour or so before i get to play the music again. last night i forgot to turn off the unit and it was on pause-mode (good thing my ac adaptor was connected).

now my question is:

is it safe to just pause the unit instead of turning it off. i guess there will be no stress on the harddisk because its not spinning when in pause-mode.

[qasim13]

I would have thought that when it's paused, the elapsed time is flashing, therefore taking up more power than if it was stopped. Of course, you'd have to reload the song.

[phreax]

Originally Posted by qasim13

I would have thought that when it's paused, the elapsed time is flashing, therefore taking up more power than if it was stopped. Of course, you'd have to reload the song.

does it really take up a lot of power by just blinking some pixels on the screen? i my h140 is on from 7am to 7pm and still have power before i recharge it overnight. not to mention most of time i let it play even when not listening on it. im just concern with the harddisk life constantly spinning when the music is playing. while on pause mode, its not spinning but still will eat up some power.

[ryan_lcl]

Personally I think starting and stopping sucks more power than pausing coz everytime I restart the HDD spins up to load the buffers again, drawing more juice than just pausing where the buffers are still loaded and no HDD activity is needed.

[TedJ]

Originally Posted by qasim13

I would have thought that when it's paused, the elapsed time is flashing, therefore taking up more power than if it was stopped. Of course, you'd have to reload the song.

Updating the LCD doesn't draw too much power overall. Now, the backlight on the other hand...

[evade]

I know when I left my player on pause by mistake (7 hours)it drained the battery right down, well it was on 2 bars at the time so that didn't probably help

[Haku]

The LCD screens do need power to show the display, there is a type of LCD that only needs power when it changes from one state to another (clear to dark, or dark to clear) but I haven't heard of anything yet that uses it.
However if a small 1.5v battery can power a digital watch for 5 years (proven, I had a watch battery last exactly 5 years once) I doubt the drain on the iHP's battery is anything significant.